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When I was about 11 years old I took up martial arts at a local park for three reasons: #1 It was a free class, #2 My uncle told my mom to bring me and #3 I was tired of getting picked on. It was exactly the era in which the movie “The Karate Kid” …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
A man named Oswald Chambers once wrote that “it is impossible to weary God’s love…” Man’s on the other hand has a predetermined limit it would seem, even among family members and especially when something valuable stands to be won or lost. There is a competition that reverberates in Southern California. It’s in the gridlock, …
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Category: Character, For Further Study
I’ve been told that some of the Brooklyn Dodgers lived in Brooklyn among that people who adored them, among the fans. Some also told me that even with product endorsements, players in the NBA used to earn far less than they do today. So when the older folks talk of Henry Aaron, Jerry West and …
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Category: Character, For Further Study
If only he was a dumb jock his draft stock might be higher. If only he hadn’t left Florida State University to go study at Oxford maybe he’d be better prepared for the NFL Combine. If only he didn’t aspire to be a doctor by the time he’s 40 years old, then the scouts might …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Play
I wonder if one of my deepest fears has something to do with a vicarious involvement with basketball. Some good friends invited me to dinner since I was in the neighborhood last night and over some enchiladas my buddy asked what I was doing tonight. I told him I was going to play some basketball …
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Category: Character
Can you be immune to disappointment? No, but you can overcome it.
Category: Character
This morning I found out who Dr. Amy Bishop is but the event that made her notorious occurred last Friday when she went on a calculated shooting spree at the University of Alabama that left three faculty members dead and three injured. Apparently, Bishop had been denied tenure (permanent status as a university professor) earlier …
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Category: Character
